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Encouraging Healthy Food Shopping and Eating Behaviors by Price Reduction: A Community Supermarket Study

NCT01509664 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 137

Last updated 2024-09-24

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Summary

The investigators plan to test the effect of price reduction of fruits and vegetables and non-caloric beverages on food purchasing, food intake, body weight, and body composition of primarily single adult shoppers. One hundred subjects will be randomized to an experimental or control group for a 4 month period. In the experimental group, there will be an automated 50% reduction in fruits vegetables and non-caloric beverages during the middle 2-month period. The investigators expect to observe significant changes in food shopping and eating behavior during this period, which should lead to body weight and fat loss. Some of these new shopping patterns should persist in the last month of the study even though prices revert.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Discount intervention

50% discount on selected fruits and vegetables at participating supermarket

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Columbia University

    collaborator OTHER

  • New York Obesity and Nutrition Research Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Allan Geliebter, PhD · New York Obesity and Nutrition Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-08-31
Primary Completion
2013-08-31
Completion
2013-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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